Name: The Yankee Flyer
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: This song is written about the train called The Flying Yankee or Yankee Flyer that used to travel around New England from 1935 to 1957. The train now resides in Lincoln, NH at the Hobo Railroad.

The Yankee Flyer

by Michael Cressey

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This song is written about the train called The Flying Yankee or Yankee Flyer that used to travel around New England from 1935 to 1957. The train now resides in Lincoln, NH at the Hobo Railroad.

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Oh New England, don’t forget me

Back in ’35, I was ten years old
Down by the depot, we waited in the cold
For the Yankee Flyer, on her first run
One hundred tons of steel, shining in the sun

From Boston she wound, up to Crawford Notch
Looking for boulders, always on the watch
From upstate New York, through the Berkshires
No wonder they called her the Mountaineer

Chorus: The Yankee Flyer was the greatest train
Ever built by the Boston & Maine

In an old yard, up near Carver Mass.
She came to rest, the last of her class
She could not outrun, the tracks of time
Barely twenty years, seemed like a crime

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Oh New England, don’t forget me

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released October 8, 2014

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